Re: Clone of hard drive

[Robert Waldner <Waldner@KPNQwest.at>]

On Fri, 19 May 2000 15:45:03 PDT, Jay Kelly writes:
>Hello All,
>Is it possible to clone my linux hard drive to an image or to another drive?
>This way in the event of hard drive failure I can swap drives and be right
>back up. If it is, how would I go about it?

The best way is to have identical disks, so you don´t have to worry about
lilo, partitions or anything else, just
  dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

IMHO this is also the best way to backup NT, just insert tomsrtbt
<http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html>, boot, dd, and don´t mind anything.
In case of OS weirdness just dd the other way ;-)

hth,
&rw
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